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On hearing that David Cameron accidentally left his eight-year-old daughter behind in a Buckinghamshire pub , many parents will have tutted disapprovingly. Not me. Tutting isa luxury only afforded to people who haven't done somethingsimilar. My own shameful lapse happened when our three children were small,the youngest of an age still measured in weeks, but I remember itwell enough: after an exhausting and largely unsuccessful trip tothe market, my wife is ready to give up, but I am determined tovisit the fish shop. "I'm taking these two to the playground," she says. "Meet usthere." She leaves me at the back of the queue with the pram. The pram takes up a lot of room in the queue, so I push it to oneside, out of the way of the men hauling boxes of fish across theslippery floor, but close enough where I can keep an eye while Iwait. I want to be the sort of person who has an easy rapport withfishmongers, but in reality I am the sort of person fishmongerssell unwanted fish to. I'm both highly suggestible and eager togive some impression of expertise. I haven't slept for a month, andI don't know what I want. When I walk out of the shop with two big bags, I am worried abouthow I will explain my purchases to my wife. I am specificallywondering how to answer the question: "Why did you buy two-dozengoose barnacles?" I can't say, "Because I wanted the man to think Iknew what they were." To my surprise this is not the first question my wife asks me whenI show up at the playground. The first question she asks is: "Whereis the baby?" For a brief second I have no idea what she's talkingabout. What baby? Then I drop my barnacles and run, as fast as Ican, all the way back to the fish shop. By the time I got there the queue was all new people, and Irealised they must have all thought someone else in the shopresponsible for the pram in the window. My only worry was how I,red-faced and panting, was going to look running in there andsnatching a baby. I didn't wait around to find out what anybodythought. Having three children is a logistical nightmare. It's easy to losetrack of one, especially when you try to divide the labours ofparenting. My only advice is: do a headcount every hour or so, andalways check the top of your car before you set off. The e-commerce company in China offers quality products such as China Fishing Tackle Trolley , Carp Fishing Bags, and more. For more , please visit Fishing Pole Rollers today!
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